Planned health and safety tree works
Find out about our planned health and safety tree works.
For medium and large-sized trees, it is normal for the tree felling and stump removal to be done in 2 stages. This is due to the differing equipment required.
Every year the council undertakes a cycle of routine health and safety inspections as part of the council's cyclical tree maintenance programme.
The trees are inspected using Visual Tree Assessment (VTA) techniques, a standard approach to tree risk assessment, involving the diagnosis of structural defects, the evaluation of their significance from visible signs and the application of arboricultural biomechanical knowledge.
A number of issues were raised regarding the health of a number of trees. As a result, the following essential arboricultural safety works have been instructed.
Works will take place between February 2025.
What we are working on
| Location | Ward | Species | Details |
| Entance to Balgowan Close (right hand side as you drive in) | New Malden Village housing | Lime | Fell & grind to 30cm (basal decay, ganoderma from ground to crown break) |
| Outside 65 Queens Drive | Berrylands | Crab Apple | Fell & Grind. Basal decay with multiple fungal brackets |
| Outside 34 Pine Gardens | Berrylands | Cherry | Fell & Grind |
| Outside 121 Surbiton Hill Road | Berrylands | Cherry | Dying fell and grind |
| Rear Garden 3 Parklands | Berrylands housing | Cherry Plum | Fell |
| Outside 47 Oakleigh Avenue | Tolworth | Hawthorn | Fell & grind to 30cm (heavy lean towards road, structural concerns, dieback and spase throughout). |
| Outside 87 Princes Avenue | Tolworth | Whitebeam | Fell & grind to 30cm (major basal decay and hollowing, dieback throughout). |
| Opposite 4 Watermans | Canbury Gardens | Elm | Fell |
| Opposite LC1 Ladywood Road | Tolworth | Cherry | Fell & grind to 30cm (dead) |
| Between 7-9 Ladywood Road | Tolworth | Pear | Fell & grind to 30cm (dead) |
| Outside 12 Selbourne Avenue | Tolworth | Cherry | Fell & grind to 30cm (dead) |
| Rear 38-41 Chaffinch Close (in Lapwing Court carpark) | Tolworth housing | Rowan | Fell & grind to 30cm (extensive dieback, split between two main branches, tree is in very poor condition) |
| Outside 5 Mayroyd Avenue | Tolworth | Bird cherry | Fell & grind to 30cm (dead) |
| Outside 29 Kenley | Coombe Vale | Sweetgum | Dead tree grub out |
| Outside 2 Park Road | New Malden Village | Lime | Crown lift 2.5m and remove basal (obstructing footway) |
| Outside 88 Albemarle Gardens | Green Lane & St James | Weeping birch | Crown lift 2.5m (low growth impacting road) |
| Outside 25 Albemarle Gardens | Green Lane & St James | Weeping birch | Crown lift 2.5m (low growth impacting road) |
| Outside 23 Princes Avenue | Tolworth | Gleditsia | Crown lift 4m (very low over road, pavement and resdients property) |
| Outside 18 Oakleigh Avenue | Tolworth | Purple plum | Crown lift to 2.5 (low growth obstructing road) |
| Outside 12 Princes Avenue | Tolworth | Purple plum | Crown lift to 2.5 (low growth obstructing road) |
| Outside 16 Largewood Avenue | Tolworth | Hawthorn | Crown lift to 2.5 (low growth obstructing road) |
| Right LC16 Largewood Avenue | Tolworth | Pear | Crown lift to 2.5 (low growth obstructing road) |
| Outside 27 Ravenswood Avenue | Tolworth | Pear | Crown lift to 2.5 (low growth obstructing road) |
| Outside 43 Highdown | Old Malden | Box Elder | Remove basal growth |
| Outside 7 Ernest Road | Norbiton | Cherry | Remove basal growth |
Upcoming parks tree works
Be aware of footpath closures during this time.